Poiesis

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by Poiesis 17y ago
I bike to work. I highly recommend it. It takes me about 10 minutes longer in the morning, 5 in the afternoon. The difference is a bit more with low traffic, less (or even favoring the bicycle) with high traffic. For those 15 extra minu
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by Poiesis 17y ago
There are two kinds of people. Those who like to fiddle around with technology per se, and those who use it as a means to an end. I used to be the first, now I consider myself more the second. You could say I'm getting older, but I like
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Let me tell you, the iPhone has already changed how this "mobile worker" works. I could be talking to a coworker, unsure of some documentation. Or I could be eating while reading news. Or I could be waiting in line for 3 minutes and readi
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Let me tell you, the iPhone has already changed how this "mobile worker" works. I could be talking to a coworker, unsure of some documentation. Or I could be eating while reading news. Or I could be waiting in line for 3 minutes and readi
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Hey! I live right by there! To sort of bring this on topic, the location of this place previously had some lighting or interior design place. It was just a horrible location that didn't seem to get any "drop on" traffic but had a fairly dec
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Of course--but at least for me, I don't have enough spare cash flow to outsource all the handyman stuff. And if I did, I've found that the time cost of finding someone and managing them can be at times almost as much as doing it myself. So
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Actually, my own situation is slightly different. I meet the demographics (married, kids, age, full time job)--I just have a problem with getting to 9PM and making the choice of "I can spend four hours now, or no hours", and not liking eit
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by Poiesis 17y ago
I really wasn't trying to say it would save you money in the end or that it would help sell software as you seem to think. I think you might be missing the point here. If it does not in fact save significant money or help sell software--
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Wow. This hadn't occurred to me before, but it also goes to show you how bad they were at naming. I mean, "Performa"? If that doesn't scream "budget line", I don't know what does.
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by Poiesis 17y ago
"This site uses Microsoft Silverlight. For a richer experience please download and install the plug-in." Am I posting this as a warning to those of us who can't/won't install Silverlight, or as a thinly veiled commentary on Microsoft's prac
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by Poiesis 17y ago
The lightbox: the new modal dialog. "User! Answer this question! Now!" Our user generally doesn't really care about your new feature if they're logging in to check mail; they want to--wait for it-- check their mail . Just like users every
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by Poiesis 17y ago
What I've noticed is that programs have gotten more...in-your-face, loud, obnoxious. Kids cartoons now are so frenzied as to be seemingly seizure-inducing. More mainstream fare is more deliberately attention getting. Many many shows are
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by Poiesis 17y ago
What's amazed me as my kids are growing up is how easily they learn from TV. Something about the medium just is able to stick stuff into their heads like nothing else. I'm talking about educational stuff at the moment (which is the majorit
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by Poiesis 17y ago
This is somewhat true, and it is the reason I started watching Lost. But I just don't think that a kid (or adult) is going to be that socially backward just because they didn't watch a TV show. I mean, sure--you hang out with people who li
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Yes, we fall in the group of "alternate distribution channel". We have a TV for movies, no cable. I occasionally watch the last part of football games on it. We do occasionally get TV shows via Netflix, and there's a couple of shows I'll
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by Poiesis 17y ago
You might find this writeup interesting, then: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2007/11/10/conversion-optimizer-adw... (I really need to stop reading so much and start producing...)
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by Poiesis 17y ago
I can't stand exercise for its own sake. I love playing sports (say, ultimate disc, the most pretentiously named sport invented), because there's stuff going on. I love the feeling of exercise. But just lifting, or jogging on a treadmi
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Yeah, yeah. The issue is, Apple owns the app store. They are in the business of making money, and they generally do this by being tasteful. By all accounts they seem to be doing pretty well.
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Would more saving and less consumption be good for the country? I'm not saying it's a bad idea for individuals--it's what we do personally--but it seems like the economy as a whole would stagnate based on my completely unqualified armchair
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by Poiesis 17y ago
What am I missing here? Ebooks aren't fitting the bill? Because of low adoption?
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by Poiesis 17y ago
"We will use the scar tissue from this painful mistake to help make better decisions going forward, ones that match our mission." -Jeff Bezos http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/forum/ref=cm_cd_ef_tft_tp?_... Some guys never learn, I guess.
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by Poiesis 17y ago
I just don't get Amazon's stance here. It's evident by other actions that they see the iPad as a serious competitior, which is smart. One of the announced features of Apple's book store is that publishers get to set their own prices. So
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by Poiesis 17y ago
In my experience Flash on Windows is a less-buggy resource hog, so that statement is somewhat universally true.
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by Poiesis 17y ago
It would be an interesting move. I would see one or both of two things happening. First, people would take it and run with it, eventually coming up with a decent piece of software. Second, Apple could do the same. Either way, though,
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by Poiesis 17y ago
I think that the awkwardness of using this as a camera, coupled with security policies against cameras in many companies, makes a camera a "why bother?" item. So they add support for an add-on, and especially for plugging in a SD card or c
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by Poiesis 17y ago
> We don't know how it will compare against a similar range intel processor... Who cares? The consumers certainly don't. Hell, I don't. There are people out there who have used the device that say it's tremendously fast, not laggy.
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Note: you are allowed to change the laws. (I wish I could give attribution to this, but I'm likely misquoting and hence can't find it)
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Perhaps not having an easy way to purchase your software lead to more people buying it, in 2002 (thought I find it hard to believe). I find it even harder to believe, though, in 2010. $200-$500 is not a lot of money for a developer tool, o
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by Poiesis 17y ago
> Forums are conversations Yeah, and if you're like me, a conversation means you're repeating yourself all the time because you don't have a hash table in your head keeping track of who you've said what to.
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Somewhat like the author does, I use my iPhone for this. It's actually surprised me how often this comes in handy. Unlike the author, while I wouldn't mind more screen space and easier typing, for the "with kids" situations I'm in I gener

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